Question regarding bead blasting (Satin finishes)

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:30 pm

I've always assumed that keeping the inside of the bell smooth was a maintenance issue.

Even when labor cost wasn't an issue, insides were smooth. Remembering that only the last bit of the bell is plated in any case, I'd imagine that it doesn't affect the sound one way or the other. Rather, removing material from both sides of the brass may weaken it, and smooth material may be easier to keep clean and wipe off from the inevitable condensation.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:43 pm

Regardless of the horn size, mutes would be a problem in a satin bell. If not in the mute's seal, in wearing down the corks...

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:43 pm

bloke wrote:*including putting a piece of WOOD in one's PANTS POCKET while playing (NOT joking!!!)

I assume one would use ash for that piece of wood, since one is clearly making an a** of oneself.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:23 pm

Is that a Pack in your Flat, or are you just happy to see me?

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:24 pm

bloke wrote:Trumpets are MUCH easier to make sound different by just having a different concept (or a different sound EXPECTATION) than a tuba.

Thus, the 1000's of myths regarding what *"this" or "that" will do to the sound of a trumpet.
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*including putting a piece of WOOD in one's PANTS POCKET while playing (NOT joking!!!)

If the piece of wood were full of splinters it could make the player squeal as well as his trumpet.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:27 pm

tubatooter1940 wrote: If the piece of wood were full of splinters it could make the player squeal as well as his trumpet.

Maybe even better than his trumpet.